# State v. Dickerson

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · March 20, 1992 · 481 N.W.2d 840

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9856389

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Minnesota, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Timothy Eugene DICKERSON, Respondent
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** March 20, 1992
- **Citations:** 481 N.W.2d 840; 1992 Minn. LEXIS 80; 1992 WL 52364
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Simonett
- **Judges:** Tomuanovich, Coyne, Keith, Simonett
- **Cited by:** 102 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that defendant’s evasive conduct after eye contact with police and observed departure from a building with a history of drug activity justified the stop
- stating “evasive conduct after eye contact with police, combined with his departure from a building with a history of drug activity, justified police in reasonably suspecting criminal activity.”
- holding that police officer was entitled to pat-down search a suspect “based on a reasonable suspicion that [the suspect] might be armed”
- stating that evasive conduct is relevant to determining whether weapons search is justified
- stating that “merely being in a high-crime area will not justify a stop”

## Opinion text

SIMONETT, Justice
(dissenting).
I join Justice Coyne’s dissent.

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